Bachelor of Prosthetics and Orthotics

University of the Sunshine Coast - Sunshine Coast

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Overview

If you are creatively or technically-minded and enjoy working with people, consider a career in prosthetics and orthotics. This program is the first and only program in Queensland that allows you to specialise in this area. Prosthetists and orthotists work with people who have amputations, musculoskeletal weaknesses, or neurological conditions, throughout the varied process of treatment.In this program you will gain specialist training in an increasingly advanced and dynamic area of health. You'll learn to provide innovative, compassionate, and client-centred care to help address the functionallimitations of people, resulting from illness, disease, or disability. You'll develop skills, through study and clinical placements, to enter the profession and help break down barriers for people living with disability. For more information, visit Bachelor of Prosthetics and Orthotics at UniSC - University of the Sunshine Coast.

Prerequisites

Potential Career Outcomes

Clinical Prosthetist and/or Orthotist. The profession is prominent within public and private hospital settings, community based organisations, aged care facilities, the private health sector and academic arena. Services that may include allied health, rehabilitation and assistive technology services, are delivered across the entire age spectrum; resulting in services within the primary, secondary and tertiary care sectors.

ATAR & Selection Rank

The table below shows the ATAR and Selection Rank information for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in 2023.

ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds
ATAR
(excluding adjustment factors)
Selection Rank
(including adjustment factors)
Highest rank to receive an offer96.7099.95
Median rank to receive an offer79.9783.07
Lowest rank to receive an offer68.5572.55

<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made

Admission Criteria

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University

University of the Sunshine Coast

Campus

Sunshine Coast

Course Type

Bachelors Degree

Study Area

Health Sciences

Indicative ATAR

68.55

Delivery Mode

On-campus

Duration

Full-time: 3 years, Part-time: 6 years

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State
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Type
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Courses
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